The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna - Softcover

Cook, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0199744297 ISBN 13: 9780199744299

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Schenker Project Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deep... Full description

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Review:

characterized by an always-maintained balance of grace, elegance, intellectual rigour, thorough and meticulous scholarship, clearly laid out argumentation and a wry humour (Nineteenth-Century Music Review)

About the Author:

Nicholas Cook is Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He was Professorial Research Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directs the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He is the author of articles and books on a wide variety of musicological and theoretical subjects (his Music: A Very Short Introduction has been translated into ten languages). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199744297
• ISBN 13: 9780199744299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368